Fests and events, 6/19.

Michael Guillen notes that John Cameron Mitchell is "all over Frameline30," as he's featured in Katherine Linton's documentary Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig and Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema and will also be delivering the closing remarks at Frameline's Persistent Vision Conference. "Sure," Mitchell tells him. "It's a free ticket. A good time. The best queer festival in the world. Why not?"

Michael's all over Frameline himself. He talks with director Fawn Yacker and exec producer Lauren Sterling about Ugly Ducklings - and: "As an exercise to help promote and sell copies of his recently-published film guide 101 Must-See Movies For Gay Men, Alonso Duralde's Saturday film clip lecture of the same name at the Roxie Film Center was effective - he sold every copy of his book that he brought to sell out on the sidewalk in front of the theater - and rightfully so!"

From the Sydney Film Festival:

• James Russell on Gnome ("slightly sketchy but rather sweet"), Edmond ("fucking awful") and The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema, "a three-episode exploration of the movies from a Freudian psychoanalytic perspective" presented by Slavoj Zizek.

• Matt Riviera on El Aura and Burke and Wills.

• Michael Collins carries on sending quick dispatches to Hollywood Bitchslap.

Movie City News has the press release from Cinevegas announcing its awards; Brent Simon has more at Now Playing.

The Reeler's got the award-winners from this year's Brooklyn International Film Festival.

There's a lot of horror screening in San Francisco this summer, and Brian Darr suggests locals might even want to "build a 'history of horror' curriculum, as films from every decade since the development of the talkie are represented."

At Koreanfilm.org, Davide Cazzaro offers up "Observations and notes" on the 7th Jeonju International Film Festival and talks with programmers Jung Soo-wan and Yoo Un-seong.

At the Siffblog, David Jeffers is impressed with Claude Chabrol's A Comedy of Power but disappointed in Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly.

Online listening tip. For German speakers, that is. The first episode of a podcast accompanying the X-Filme exhibition at the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf through August 27. Via filmz.de.

Posted by dwhudson at June 19, 2006 1:33 PM